Plagiarism is not allowed on WikiAnswers. If you see an answer that was plagiarized from another site, feel free to delete/change it or alert a WikiAnswers Supervisor about the answer. We can't keep track of every answer that's submitted, so sometimes plagiarized answers go through the cracks.
No, of course not.
An anti-plagiarism website should show every website that the content in question appears on. That will include WikiAnswers.
Copying from another website is plagiarism. Plagiarism is against the law. We want original answers.
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In the past words and phrases and other content on a website were scanned through software. The software would check for plagiarism and making sure content was original. Today you have various websites that allow users to check for the same issues on the fly.
As long as you cite your source, it is not considered plagiarism. But most teachers do not allow you to copy a page, even if you cite it.
Tutors use a plagiarism checker because they don't want students to cheat buy copying everything they have written from a website. It is to make sure that they don't cheat.
Yes, you can use direct quotes from a website in your essay, but make sure to properly cite the source to avoid plagiarism.
plagiarism
To effectively paraphrase a website and avoid plagiarism, read the content carefully, understand the main ideas, and then rewrite the information in your own words without looking back at the original text. Make sure to cite the source properly to give credit to the original author.
If a Supervisor finds out that you copy and pasted an answer from another website, the Supervisor will remove your answer and you will be warned that plagiarism is against WikiAnswers' rules, and is also illegal.
The prefix of "plagiarism" is "plagi-".